MeganSA_TX said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
I read this differently from MeganSA_TX, on substance rather than tone. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.
MeganSA_TX said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Correct as far as it goes. The part it does not cover is what to do when the honest answer is "not enough data", which is more often than anyone likes.
MeganSA_TX said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
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Shop Reference StandardsFrom the other side of the consultation, briefly. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
Dr.NateNeph said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
Can confirm. Same sequence, different timescale. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.